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HARDTACK June 2009 1 HARDTACK Indianapolis Civil War Round Table Newsletter http://indianapoliscwrt.org/ June 8, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Meeting at Indian Lake Country Club, 10502 E. 75 th Street ** The Plan of the Day Thinking Bigger: Gettysburg in Space and Time This lecture breaks through restrictive paradigms to observe the historic event of Gettysburg in its actual scope and size. Existing lexicons, ideologies and legends foster blindspots in our view of Gettysburg as they do in other historical events. This presentation will strip away those blinders and observe the battle in its logical connectedness. Our Guest Speaker Troy Harman Troy D. Harman has been a National Park Service Ranger since 1984. His assignments have included historical interpretation at Appomattox Court House National Historic Park (NHP), Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (NMP), Independence NHP, Valley Forge NMP, Eisenhower National Historic Site (NHS), and, since 1989 Gettysburg NMP. He also teaches in the history department at Harrisburg Area Community College and is working on a Ph.D. in history at Lehigh University. Troy received an M.A. from Shippensburg University, and a B.A. from Lynchburg College, both in history. He has published numerous articles and essays and presented his book, Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg, in seventeen states. It is in its fourth printing. Troy, his wife Lisa, and 6-year-old son Daniel live near Gettysburg. ** Directions : From I-465: Take the 56 th Street exit. Go east to Pendleton Pike and turn left. Turn left (north) on to Sunnyside Road. At the stop light at 75 th Street, turn left to the entrance on your right. *** From Castleton: Come east on 82 nd Street, which becomes 79 th Street at Fall Creek Road. Continue east to the stoplight at Sunnyside Road. Turn right (south) to the stoplight at 75 th Street. Turn right to the club entrance on your right. *** From the Southeast: Come north on German Church Road, which becomes Sunnyside Road at Pendleton Pike. Continue north to the stoplight at 75 th Street. Turn left to the club entrance on your right. 2 Roster of Officers and Committees for the 2008-2009 Campaign Officers: President: Nikki Schofield Secretary: Frank Bynum Vice President: Tom Dean Treasurer: Tony Roscetti Committee Chairs: Programs: Tom Dean Preservation: Andy O’Donnell Website: Paul Watson Publicity: Dave Sutherland & Tony Roscetti Quiz Master: Summer Campaign: Tony Trimble Nikki Schofield HARDTACK Newsletter: Editor: Jenny Thompson Other Camp Activities Carmel Civil War Round Table : • September 16 – Tony Trimble, “Lewis Addison Armistead, Genl. CSA 1817- 1863” • October 21 – TBA • November 18 – Dr. Wesley Hanson, “Rare and Unusual Music of the Civil War” We meet at 7:00 PM on the third Wednesday of the month at the Carmel Clay Historical Society's Monon Depot Museum at 221 First St. SW in Carmel. Special Orders Chambersburg Civil War Seminars : Stonewall Jackson in the Valley , July 22-26, Plaza Hotel, Hagerstown, MD Riding with Jeb Stuart , Oct. 9-11, Four Points Sheraton, Chambersburg, PA For more information, visit http://www.chambersburgcivilwarseminars.org or call Cindy Baker at 717-264-7101. Third annual Civil War event at Fort Harrison : This event, “The Sunken Road at Shiloh”, will be held at Fort Harrison on September 19-20, 2009. Animation of the Battle of Fredericksburg : Civil War Preservation Trust has prepared an animation of the Battle of Fredericksburg, available at http://www.civilwar.org/fredericksburgmap/ Website on the Battle of Gettysburg : Randy Drais, a descendant of a Union soldier wounded at Gettysburg, has launched a new website, which focuses on lesser known or visited areas or topics. Please visit http://www.battleofgettysburgbuff.com 3 Official Records ICWRT attendance for April : 38 Alan T. Nolan Memorial Youth Scholarship Fund : John Curtis is the recipient of the Alan T. Nolan Youth Scholarship reward, in the amount of $200, to help pay his expenses for the Shenandoah trip. Annual Trip: Our annual trip (to the Shenandoah Valley) will be Sat., July 11, to Friday, July 17. See flyer in the back of this Hardtack. September meeting : Our September meeting will be held in the theater, room 215, at The Orchard School, located at 615 West 64 th Street. We will meet at the MCL at 86 th and Township Line Road (2370 West 86 th Street) for dinner and fellowship before the meeting. From the MCL, go south on Township Line Road to 79 th Street. Take 79 th Street east to Spring Mill Road (79 th Street “T’s” into Spring Mill), then go south on Spring Mill Road to 64th Street (a 4-way stop), and then go west on 64 th Street to Orchard School. Tom Dean will have maps of the Orchard campus at the June meeting. Book Raffle list: Three Months in the Southern States: April – June 1863 , by Lt. Col. Arthur J.L. Fremantle Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan , by Eric J. Wittenberg In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson , by Clint Johnson The Fighting McCooks: America’s Famous Fighting Family , by Charles and Barbara Whalen Chronicles of the War: An Illustrated Almanac and Encyclopedia of America’s Bloodiest War , edited by John Bowman *Anyone wishing to donate books for upcoming raffles should either bring them to Tony Roscetti at the June meeting or contact him to make arrangements for pick up. Test Your Civil War Knowledge (with Trimble’s Trivia) Answers to May quiz: Name the Civil War personality associated with each of these nicknames. 1. “Old Reliable” * Gen. William J. Hardee, CSA 2. “Bluff Ben” * Sen. Ben Wade (OH) 3. “Gath” * George A. Townsend, War Correspondent 4. “War Eagle” * Gen. Robert H. Milroy, USA 5. “Stovepipe” * Gen. Adam R. Johnson, CSA 4 The Soldiers Speak Quoted from Webb Garrison’s Civil War Curiosities : “At Gettysburg, said a Confederate officer, members of the Fifth Texas Regiment were ordered to fire at will. Twin brothers belonging to Company C were standing close together. One of them took a mortal hit from a Federal marksman, so his twin caught him and ‘gently laid him on the ground.’ As the surviving member of the pair began to draw himself erect, he received a lethal ball that caused him to fall across his brother’s body.” Quoted from Webb Garrison’s Civil War Curiosities : “Giving formal testimony concerning Gettysburg, Pvt. James Wilson remembered, ‘Every man picked out his man. That lasted a short time, then what was left of them fell back…. I saw an officer cut off the head of a Confederate color-bearer and take his bearer.” An excerpt from “A Drummer Boy at Gettysburg”, quoted in Civil War Stories : “…an old man is seen approaching our line through the orchard in the rear. He is dressed in a long, blue, swallow-tailed coat and high silk hat, and coming up to the Colonel, he asks: ‘Would you let an old chap like me have a chance to fight in your ranks, Colonel?’ ‘Can you shoot?’ inquires the Colonel. ‘Oh yes, I can shoot, I reckon,’ says he. ‘But where are your cartridges?’ ‘I’ve got ‘em here, sir,’ says the old man, slapping his hand on his pantaloons pocket. And so ‘old John Burns,’ of whom every school-boy has heard, takes his place in the line and loads and fires with the best of them, and is left wounded and insensible on the field when the day is done.” Quoted from Stories, Anecdotes, and Humor from the Civil War : “During the battle of Gettysburg a poor fellow, who looked the very image of death, hobbled out of the ambulance in which he had been lying, and, shouldering his musket, was just starting forward, when the surgeon in charge stopped him with: ‘Where are you going, sir?’ “To the front, doctor,’ and the brave fellow tried hard to stand firm and speak boldly as he saluted the surgeon. “To the front! What! A man in your condition? Why, sir, you can’t march half a mile; you haven’t the strength to carry yourself, let alone your knapsack, musket, and equipments. You must be crazy, surely.’ ‘But, doctor, my division are in the fight,’ (here he grasped the wheel of an ambulance to support himself,) ‘and I have a younger brother in my company. I must go.’ ‘But I am your surgeon, and I forbid you. You have every symptom of typhoid fever; a little over-exertion will kill you.’ ‘Well, doctor, if I must die, I would rather die in the field than in an ambulance.’ 5 The doctor saw that it was useless to debate the point and the soldier went as he desired. But on the evening of the next day he was buried where he fell – for fall he did, – his right arm blown off at the elbow, and his forehead pierced by a minie ball.” Officer of the Month George Pickett Quoted from C. Brian Kelly’s Best Little Stories from the Civil War : “Over the “smoke-blackened” streets of Richmond, wrote ‘Mrs. General Pickett’ in Lippincott’s magazine of May 1906, right up to the front door of ‘the old Picket house’ in that dramatic April 1865 came a surprising figure – Abraham Lincoln. He was looking for Confederate General George Pickett’s uncle, an old friend and law associate. On the same visit to the freshly defeated city, Lincoln had passed through the White House of the Confederacy and walked the downtown streets with crowds of cheering blacks around him and his soldier escort. To be sure, ‘Mrs. General Pickett’ was surprised to see the Union president at her doorstep.
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